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BY WANG FANGQING

INDONESIA’S paint and coating market is expected to grow 10% from 2011 to 2012 after a previous average annual growth of 8% between 2006 and 2011.With the strong recovery from the recession in the domestic economy, the market – with an estimated value of US dollars USD1.1 billion – will grow robustly in the following years, according to market research company Frost & Sullivan.…

BY AHMAD PATHONI

INDONESIA’S paint and coating market has grown by about 3-4% annually by average over the past decade. Indeed, consumption rose to 688,863 tonnes in 2010, from 646,700 the previous year, according to the Indonesian Paint Manufacturers’ Association.

And a mini-boom could be approaching.…

BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ

Asia has long been accused of fostering corruption and governments have often turned a blind eye, while their countries grow richer. One answer is increasing the role of non-state actors in dealing with the problem. Munza Mushtaq reports from the 14th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.…

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This was the year when Turkey really came into its own. With a well-established and successful clothing and textile industry, supping Europe, Russia and the Middle East, its industry this year laid claim to becoming a fashion centre. August’s Istanbul Fashion Week caught a lot of global attention with 21 catwalk shows, an audience of 40,000, and more than 500 overseas guests.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE INDIAN government-owned National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) is going to build a USD4.5 billion aluminium smelter of 500,000 tonnes annual capacity in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province. On Tuesday, the company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the provincial government for setting up the smelter and a 1,250MW power plant, which is expected to take four years to construct.…

BY MEGAN DETRIE

A KEY figure in the Egyptian textile industry has called on his government to invest in the two companies recently re-nationalised, following a court decision which ruled illegal their privatisation by the deposed Mubarak regime.

Judges said that the Shebin El-Kom Textile Company (which has major international clothing sector clients), and the Tanta Company for Linen and Derivatives (which does not sell to the clothing sector) had been sold off without sufficient due process, restoring the companies’ ownership to the state.…

BY MARK ROWE

WHEN it comes to palm oil production, there are – despite growing production in South America and west Africa – only two major players on the global stage – Malaysia and Indonesia. Cultivation in south-east Asia accounts for around 80% of the world’s global supply – which in turn reached a record high of 45.9 million tonnes in 2009-2010.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

WHEN it comes to cosmetics, people from east, southeast, and south Asia may have overlapping beauty needs. But given the diversity of the region, it is no surprise to say personal care companies can not use a ‘one size fits all’ strategy.…

BY KARRYN MILLER, AHMAD PATHONI, MARK ROWE

SOUTHEAST Asia is a growing and diverse market for international personal care product brands, despite the challenges (and some losses) cased by the recession. The region contains relatively rich emerging markets (and the very rich city state of Singapore), and its major poorer countries, notably Vietnam and Indonesia are growing fast and emerging robustly from the recession.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE OIL palm is a prolific shrub that can be converted into palm oil, one of the most versatile fats known to man – rich in solid saturated fatty acids and able to withstand refining at high temperatures.…